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Police: W. Pa. child found homemade explosive

Associated Press

Updated:
05/08/2013 12:45:17 AM EDT

MONACA - Police in western Pennsylvania say a pipe bomb-like device found by a 3-year-old girl could have exploded.

Monaca Police Chief Bill Petures says that whoever created the device had "negative intentions" and that it wasn't some type of firework, the Beaver County Times reported Tuesday. Monaca is about 25 miles northwest of Pittsburgh.

The Allegheny County Bomb Squad was called after the girl found the device Monday afternoon while playing on a lawn. She carried it to her father, and residents were evacuated from the apartment building. The 12-inch-long device was wrapped in duct tape and was filled with an incendiary substance.

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